# Domino's Pizza **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2017, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031 "2017-04-23T00:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2017, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/81 "2017-04-24T20:20:01Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > I think the Pizza Inns that are left are mostly kiosk-style food court locations. I don’t think so. See: [Pizza Inn](http://www.pizzainn.com) ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/82 "2017-04-26T16:06:04Z")
> [@Kat](#): > > What DSYoung said. I have a Marco’s literally 5 minutes away, and they are my second favorite chain pizza (Lou Malnati’s is first). > > I haven’t had Domino’s since long before they implemented their “new improved” pizza, so I can’t speak to their current tastiness. Before then, the only pizzas they were better than were Papa John’s and Cici’s. Lou Malnati’s is heaven. I ordered Marco’s once and won’t do it again. Slimy canned mushrooms on oily foccacia. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/83 "2017-04-26T16:09:24Z")
It is better since they revamped the crust, at least at my local one. In my part of Chicago, they are the only chain delivery option and the local options are surprisingly crappy for the price. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/84 "2017-04-26T17:18:00Z")
There’s a guy in our office that eats Domino’s for lunch quite often, and not just because they’re right across the street. He really thinks they make great pizza. At one point, he was having it delivered every day, and every day I had to endure that sweaty, work sock smell :mad: He just told me he’s leaving for another company in a few weeks and I’m really happy for him because he’s a nice guy, but my second thought was “I can’t wait to not have to put up with that stench any more”. Honestly, I don’t know how everyone else in the room doesn’t smell it. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/85 "2017-04-26T17:43:11Z")
> [@Tibby or Not Tibby](#): > > I ordered Domino’s pizza last week. > > Doorbell rang, I took the box from the delivery guy, then chowed down. Not bad! > > Shortly thereafter, my daughter told me that wasn’t the Domino’s delivery guy…it was the fertilizer guy delivering dung samples. :eek: Lucky it wasn’t the Cici’s delivery guy! ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/86 "2017-04-26T19:11:05Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Do not support chain pizzerias, and some day they will all go out of business and we will all get our pizza from Vinnie and Sonny down at the local independently owned pizza place and our lives will improve immeasurably. But my local Vinnie & Sonny’s has two locations. Seriously, I think I know two pizzerias that have only one location, and neither one makes a pizza worth ordering twice. Even the best pizza in the Bay Area - Blondie’s - has two locations (Berkeley, and San Francisco), and had a third for a while. How many locations does it take for something to be a “chain”? ---
**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/87 "2017-04-26T19:36:15Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > If you happen to live where Marco’s Pizza has a store, give that a try instead. Based in Toledo, Ohio, and really good pizza. Expanding to a lot of areas now; we have them here in South Carolina. I guess one recently opened in my city. Based on the comments here, I think I will give it a try but I’m skeptical. Maybe an odd reason, but their marketing materials make them look indistinguishable from a bunch of really cheap chains that have recently sprung up (Romeo’s… and a bunch of similar names) here next door to gas stations and decrepit shopping centers. A lot of them look like lower-rent Little Caesars, if such a thing is possible. At least the pizza looks OK on the flyer. A lot of these chains might offer 10 pizzas and 50 breadsticks for 30 bucks or some crazy deals, but even their best pictures show what looks like cheese melted on random hunks of bread or rejects from PTA fundraisers at best. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/88 "2017-04-26T19:57:38Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > There’s a guy in our office that eats Domino’s for lunch quite often, and not just because they’re right across the street. He really thinks they make great pizza. At one point, he was having it delivered every day, and every day I had to endure that sweaty, work sock smell Back in the day, I used to work near a Little Caesar’s and would get a $5 pizza maybe once a week. I’d go back to my desk, eat as much as I felt like eating and put the other (approx.) half in the break room. Despite it being a small office, I had other things to do than camp out the kitchen and no one ever came to me and said “thanks for the pizza” but I do know that I never threw a single slice away so someone out there must have enjoyed our cheap pizza days. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/89 "2017-04-26T21:25:08Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > How many locations does it take for something to be a “chain”? When they have a seperate headquaters that doesn’t serve pizza. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/90 "2017-04-26T21:40:05Z")
> [@mmkt](#): > > I think the other Coke product they offered was A&W Rootbeer > I like the Pepsi products better > > Pepsi > Mountain Few > Barq’s Root > Orange Fanta For the record, A&W Root Beer is made by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which also makes 7 Up, RC Cola, Sunkist, and Canada Dry. (They used to be a client of mine.) However, in a lot of areas, their products are bottled by the local Coca-Cola bottler, which is why you may see A&W on a fountain with Coke products. Barq’s Root Beer is, in fact, a Coke brand. PepsiCo’s root beer brand is Mug. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/91 "2017-04-26T21:52:14Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > … > Anyone remember Shakey’s? I heard about a “South Park” episode where Cartman wanted to make a Shakey’s Pizza out of stem cells. 😛 I first experienced Shakey’s pizza buffet (and taco pizza) as a youngster. I approved. > [@Muffin](#): > > A band was setting up to play at a Shakey’s in Denver in the early 70s. > > My mother asked them to play Deep Purple. > > What she expected was a smooth tune from 1933. > > What she received was early heavy metal. Was it this? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/6pD1Azkcojw/hqdefault.jpg "Deep Purple Lazy Live 1972") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pD1Azkcojw) ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/92 "2017-04-26T23:59:04Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > For the record, A&W Root Beer is made by Dr Pepper Snapple Group, which also makes 7 Up, RC Cola, Sunkist, and Canada Dry. (They used to be a client of mine.) However, in a lot of areas, their products are bottled by the local Coca-Cola bottler, which is why you may see A&W on a fountain with Coke products. > > Barq’s Root Beer is, in fact, a Coke brand. PepsiCo’s root beer brand is Mug. Yet A&W Restaurants are privately owned, after being bought out from Yum! Brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC). IBC root beer is owned by Dr Pepper Snapple as well. I must say, I have never encountered a human being in the wild who would drink Pepsi products but not Coke, or vice versa. People certainly have preferences about the flagship soda or others in the brand (for example, Diet Coke is fine for a diet drink, Diet Pepsi is comparatively swill). But when the waiter asks if Pepsi is okay, I had no idea someone would actually object and go without cola. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/93 "2017-04-27T00:08:29Z")
It was\* [Speed King](https://youtu.be/9sGy_-p_sVE)\*. The band was just setting up, and didn’t have much of a sound check (just three guys – guitar and amp, combo organ, and mic with amp). My mom went over to them asked them to play _Deep Purple_, and the vocalist broke out into a big smile and said “Yes, Ma’am!” It started with an electric guitar at 10 on acid, so my mom immediately shouted at the guitarist, “That’s not _Deep Purple_!” And he stopped, while the singer politely said to my mom that it was Deep Purple and the keyboardist briefly played some drunken churchy Fur Elisei stuff on a combo. But then it got worse. It got a lot worse. The vocalist serenaded my mom like some sabre tooth tiger being electrocuted. After the song was over, my mom chatted with the band and sung a bit of [_Deep Purple_](https://youtu.be/VwtFcr7E0O8) to them, which got the band laughing about the misunderstanding. A bit of a scary musical adventure and good pizza at the same time. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/94 "2017-04-27T00:48:59Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Yet A&W Restaurants are privately owned, after being bought out from Yum! Brands (Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, KFC). Interestingly, it looks like Dr Pepper Snapple now owns the actual brand name, and licenses it to the restaurant chain. (I had Yum! as a client for quite a while, as well.) While the root beer was always one of the main features of A&W restaurants, IIRC, you could only get it at the restaurants until the 1970s, when they finally introduced it for grocery stores. ---
**Author:** ![Weisshund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@Weisshund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weisshund)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/95 "2017-04-27T01:56:08Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > the Domino’s where I live now doesn’t have anchovies on the topping menu; they said they used to but didn’t have enough demand for them, so they stopped carrying them. A pizzeria that does not know how to make an anchovy pizza, and does not have the ingredients for it is no kind of pizzeria, it’s a sham. And if they put cheese on the anchovy pizza, they are impostures. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/96 "2017-04-27T14:52:04Z")
Any pizza place that uses canned/pickled mushrooms is dead to me. In fact any topping has to be fresh, period. I don’t want to hear about how some of you love these chain pizzerias. You’re like hobos who drink Mad Dog 20/20 who claim to know what good wine is. Glad you like it though… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/97 "2017-04-27T16:23:06Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Any pizza place that uses canned/pickled mushrooms is dead to me. In fact any topping has to be fresh, period. > > I don’t want to hear about how some of you love these chain pizzerias. > > You’re like hobos who drink Mad Dog 20/20 who claim to know what good wine is. > Glad you like it though… :rolleyes: One of my favorite local pizzas actually give you the option of fresh or canned mushrooms. I actually go for the canned there. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/98 "2017-04-27T16:25:06Z")
> [@Weisshund](#): > > A pizzeria that does not know how to make an anchovy pizza, and does not have the ingredients for it is no kind of pizzeria, it’s a sham. > > And if they put cheese on the anchovy pizza, they are impostures. I’m guessing you’re not in the US. Pizza without cheese is considered a freak of nature by most people here. I have to explain to people that pizza need not have cheese or even sauce on it to be pizza, but almost nobody believes me. ---
**Author:** ![JHBoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JHBoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JHBoom)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2017, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/99 "2017-04-27T17:25:16Z")
At home: Domino’s thin crust is decent, and is a change of pace from our usual 3-4 local, non-chain pizza places we order from on a semi-regular basis. It’s also a good reminder that our usual 3-4 pizza places are our usuals for a reason. Here in the ME: Domino’s, Papa Johns, and Pizza Hut are the options I have for pizza. Domino’s is within walking distance (it’s actually next to my apartment building), so that’s where I get my pizza from on the occasions I don’t feel like cooking. I have no desire to have anything delivered to my apartment via any of the numerous food delivery apps that I could be using here. It may be personal security paranoia, but in a part of the world where Americans are viewed as a necessary evil at best, I don’t feel it’s a good idea to put my name & address (and credit card info) on an app with questionable data security. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2017, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031/100 "2017-04-28T00:35:13Z")
I’m trying to cut down on fast food pizza, but think Domino’s can be reasonably good. The trick is to get a thin crust and extra sauce. Try feta cheese or Brooklyn pepperoni. Pizza Hut and Papa John’s are somewhat similar. Best places are small family joints, but so are the worst places. Descendants Pizza in Toronto is the best. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dominos-pizza/785031.md?page=6)